Even in the 1880s there were a dozen or so 'Peterloo Veterans' in the village of Failsworth, a few miles from central Manchester, who met in their local Liberal Club surrounded by the banners they had carried on that tragic day more than sixty years before.

Few historians have given much attention to the inscriptions and pictorial representations on the banners and flags carried in demonstrations and parades, 17 but their importance in popular politics was evident to radicals and the authorities alike.

It was no accident that Peterloo commenced with the command to the Yeomanry Cavalry to 'have at their banners', and, as one of the victims, Samuel Bamford, vividly recalled, the contest for them continued throughout that fateful day in 1819.

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The Masque of Anarchy is a political poem written in 1819 by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo massacre of that year.

Following the Peterloo massacre of August 16, 1819, the UK government acted to prevent any future disturbances by the introduction of new legislation, the so-called Six Acts which labelled any meeting for radical reform as an overt act of treasonable conspiracy.

‘For three decades and more, Harry Chambers, the Publishing Director of Peterloo Poets, has been one of the great "hearers and hearteners" of the work being done in British and Irish poetry.

Peterloo Poets, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2001, is a publishing house that has earned the trust of readers and writers alike; it has managed to keep the art in touch with its traditions and alive to its possibilities.'

‘Peterloo Poets is a small publishing house run by Harry Chambers in Cornwall.

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Peterloo Estates represents a number if special purpose vehicles developing and investing for its own portfolio and on behalf of its clients.

The success of Peterloo can be attributed to its founder Stephen Barker.

They began to add their voices to those of the expanding middle class, who were already clamouring for reform of what up to now had been a rich man's club - and the rich were not keen on the idea at all.

Universal manhood suffrage was perhaps just a distant dream, but what people were groping toward was an end to the system of Rotten Boroughs, where the electorate could be bribed, and Pocket Boroughs, where seats were at the disposal of a patron or patrons.

The incident quickly became known as the Peterloo Massacre - an allusion to the Battle of Waterloo four years earlier.

He had to turn down a safe parliamentary seat in 1820, and even in 1841, while campaigning for the Tory candidate in Bolton, he was attacked and had to be rescued by party workers as his assailants chanted ‘Peterloo’.

He continued to believe he had done nothing wrong and described August 16th 1819 as ‘the proudest day of my life.’ It was not his only questionable action.

By the time of the Peterloo Massacre, my Hulton line had travelled socially far from William Hulton’s and they were listed as farmers, publicans, bleachers, weavers and shopkeepers.

In their different ways these three volumes have a feel of maturity about their author’s work, but a maturity that, for whatever reason, has found it hard to attain first collection status earlier.

That Peterloo has now picked them up is commendable in doing what is the first duty of any poetry publisher, namely to give new poets a proper public hearing, provided the quality is there.

Of the three poets, Roger Caldwell is most a poet of ideas – doubtless as a consequence of being, perhaps, the first poet ever to have been driven out of the arms of the Muse and into the more rarified world of philosophy.

Coursework and Essays: By Level: GCSE: History: By Country Or Region: United Kingdom: How far does the evidence in the sources suggest that the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819 was caused by political activists exciting discontent

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This new collection opens with a section of haunting lyric poems, has a central narrative sequence based on the trials of Guthlac, the hermit saint of Crowland in Lincolnshire, and ends with a section celebrating the flora, fauna, and human activity in the immediate environs of the poets home near Huntingdon.

There is a strong sense of the rotation of the seasons in this volume, which contains poems about the elements fire, earth, water; poems about rats, herons, magpies, and a peahen called Cleopatra; and a epiphany for “all worn-out, baggy, threadbare things.”

Stuart Henson’s first volume, The Impossible Jigsaw was published by Peterloo in 1985.

WATERLOO TO PETERLOO WATERLOO WATERLOO TO PETERLOO by R. WHITE Follow of Downing College, and...great failure of nerve which is called "Victorianism".

...centrepiece of R.J. Whites Waterloo to Peterloo, is better known...labelled Peterloo, or the Peterloo massacre, in ironic...reference to the battle of Waterloo which had taken place...also a veteran of Waterloo.

There was no small fear of revolution after Waterloo (the "Peterloo" Massacre in Manchester in 1819 was so named in derisive reference to the great battle and the duke).